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Word: smoked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plump, well-fed gentleman in steel-rimmed spectacles set out from Iowa last autumn to sell blood & death to the U. S. Press. With his brief case full of fire, smoke, steel, mud, gore, torn limbs and burnt flesh he visited nearly every State in the Union, leaving behind a trail of agony and chaos. Last week he rode into Louisville, and before he rode out again he had left his mark on the Courier-Journal-50th newspaper to buy his photographs of the World War. Sweeping on through Washington, Wheeling, Erie, New Haven, he paused in Manhattan to contemplate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Salesman of Death | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...snipers, concealed by the dunes, have picked off all but three of the troop. None of the three can fly but Morelli (Wallace Ford) and the sergeant dismount the plane's machine gun, set fire to the plane and get back to the oasis under cover of the smoke. Sanders (Boris Karloff) goes mad and gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross. Morelli is killed trying to drag him back to safety. The sergeant has the machine gun and when the Arabs, veiled like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...took it up again because, improvident, she wished to make some money for a sick friend. Appearing in Nju, she married the director, Dr. Paul Czinner who has since done all her pictures. Actress Bergner likes Schnitzler, wiener schnitzel, skating, odd-looking clothes. She dislikes women who smoke, smokes incessantly herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...blaze was of obscure origin. At 8.50, three details of firemen from the Brattle St. station, arrived at the door of Dunster F-44 to find the study a haze of smoke. With smarting eyes, their leader discerned the cause of the smoke; a sofa in the far corner was oxidizing rapidly, crackling like a good log fire on a winter's night. A consultation was held; the sofa was tossed from the window. And, as the inhabitants of Dunster jeered, the firemen danced their weird tribal dance around the blazing pyre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flaming Sofa Hurled From Window in Dunster House | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

...around the campus are strong on 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' and 'Carioca,' at present. The last piece is now sweeping New York, and will probably have an immediate success in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD LIKES GOOD MUSIC MORE THAN YALE | 1/24/1934 | See Source »

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